- #1 Respawn Man
96% matchMostly Positive77% of 46 reviews2015
Dev: Evan (Solidplasma) PeiperlPub: Solidplasma Studios LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%
What kills you makes you stronger! Use your extra lives to solve puzzles in this delightfully morbid puzzle platformer with a soundtrack by VVVVVV's composer, Souleye!
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #2 Dawn of the Plow
96% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2015
Dev: Dan FitzGerald
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
You are the new plow on the block, and today is your day. How many cars can you shepherd home before achieving grounds for termination?
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #3 Operation KREEP
95% matchMostly Positive74% of 19 reviews2016
Dev: Magic Item Tech
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 91%
An extraterrestrial organism threatens deep space exploration missions! Only trained personnel working as a team can eliminate these infestations. But, the corporation financing the space endeavor has a private mail for you: Cold hard cash for the alien alive! Which side will you choose?
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #4 Paperbound
94% matchPositive89% of 28 reviews2015
Dev: Dissident Logic
Windows
Median: 7.5 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Run with scissors and walk on walls in this award-winning local-multiplayer gravity battle arena game from the mind of a former Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare developer. Enter the pages of old books where you will find strange environments and a cabal of playable characters.
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #5 Fist's Elimination Tower
94% matchPositive93% of 42 reviews2017
Dev: Impostor Cat Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
A 2D platformer in which you play as randomly generated contestants that have to bounce their way to the top of an obstacle course full of robots, electric currents, explosives, and fists.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #6 ASCII Attack
93% matchMostly Positive76% of 41 reviews2016
Dev: Daisy Maze Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
A Cold War super computer has gone rogue and is printing launch codes for a first strike. There is only one way to prevent nuclear Armageddon; enter the dot matrix, collect the codes, and defeat the ASCII army. ASCII Attack is a retro style indie action title inspired by arcade games of yesteryear.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #7 Ride the Bullet
92% matchMixed55% of 20 reviews2015
Dev: Jordan Sendar
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are a gun for hire with nothing to your name but your rifle and a single bullet. You have a special gift. You can control this bullet. Your objectives: take jobs, kill, build your reputation, and work your way up the crime ladder.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #8 Get Over Here
91% matchMixed49% of 41 reviews2015
Dev: Reload Games StudioPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
GET OVER HERE is a fast paced battle arena game! Choose one of the 12 over the top characters and get ready to PULL and FINISH all your enemies!! No one to play locally? Go online and try to beat the best players worldwide!
Why similar: Action 58.1%, Indie 41.9%
- #9 Starship Rubicon
90% matchPositive84% of 44 reviews2015
Dev: WickworksPub: Cheerful Ghost
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Starship Rubicon is a modern take on the classic space shooter genre. It's a smart and challenging rogue-lite that features a unique control scheme, pixel art remixed with NASA photographs, and an existential crisis about who is REALLY the monster.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #10 Demon Grade VR
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Richard Stenson, Solus GamesPub: Solus Games, Inc.
Windows
Demon Grade is a VR FPS featuring free 360 degree movement, with no jogging in place, no teleporting, and no rails. In Demon Grade, you will explore dynamically generated levels in first person perspective while fighting relentless demonic enemies and collecting demon shards to unlock various weapons.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #11 Glassteroids
89% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Rotech Digital Ltd
Windows
Glassteroids is a beautiful 3D arcade space blaster. Take classic 80s arcade gameplay, add an extra dimension, retro minimalist wireframe graphics and an epic soundtrack, and you will start to have an idea of what's ahead.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #12 ARIS
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TBM StudiosPub: Lit Network
Windows
Strategically clear your way of enemies to gather points, salvage killed enemies for extra points, all while avoiding and engaging in combat with other different types of enemies. Added effects and game mechanics make for challenging gameplay in a fast paced environment.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #13 Rise High
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: eiloware
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Rise High is an arcade action game in which you have to defend your workers from an alien invasion while they try to build skyscrapers!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #14 Dawn of the Robot Empire
88% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: oeFun, Inc.
Windows
Witness first hand the Dawn of the Robot Empire. Can you stop the invading robotic forces from another galaxy? Blast your way to victory in this retro sci-fi shooter. You'll need fast reflexes and an accurate aim to win.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #15 Tech Clash
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Interstellar PunksPub: ESAT
Windows
In the far future huge companies compete for the control of the technological market, in this mayhem the CEOs of the biggest companies reunite and decide to fight it off in a tournament! Each company will provide a champion in what would be the fight of the century!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #16 Onslaught VR
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MindWalker Games
Windows
Jump into the fray with Onslaught VR! Armed with multiple gun types, devastating AOE attacks, and aerial capabilities, you'll face off against multiple enemies and powerful commanders. Good luck, soldier... you'll need it.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #17 Space Cruise
86% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Ben RobinsonPub: So and So Games
Windows
Space Cruise is a hybrid of both metroidvania style platforming and traditional bullet-hell gameplay, allowing the player to choose which play style resonates with them most for each run. With power-ups for both methods of gameplay, randomised levels on the branching paths, and leaving the final decision to the player, each run should...
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #18 Pop Pop Boom Boom VR
86% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Thorne Media, LLC
Windows
You brought a bow to a bomb fight. Challenge: Survive.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #19 Pleasure in Dream
85% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Upineleed
Windows
Today, will you listen to this small story?
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #20 Seek & Destroy - Steampunk Arcade
84% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: GamestormVRPub: Showstorm Ltd
Windows
You are Armed with a Steam Powered Rail Gun + Hammers + TESLA Powered Lightning + Magnets! SEEK & DESTROY to rack up the biggest score!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #21 Mischief On Main Street
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Games
Windows
Lie and bluff your way to victory in this online multiplayer VR game inspired by the likes of Mafia and Trouble in Terrorist Town!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #22 Fighting Spree 3D
84% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Tonye Amienyo
Windows
Knock your opponent out or be knocked out in this kickboxing title
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #23 VR Ultimate Paintball: Heartbreak, Regret & Paintbots
83% matchMixed46% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: Robert Potter
Windows
VR Ultimate Paintball: Heartbreak, Regret & Paintbots focuses on an arcade style of gameplay. Containing four different game modes: wave based shooter, competitive target practice, challenging stage based trial map and an episodic story.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #24 Zig
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Scumways
Windows · Mac · Linux
50 levels of fast-paced, old school, arcade blasting.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #25 Red Hot Ricochet
81% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Wyatt YeongPub: Everook
Windows · Mac
It's high noon in this barren wasteland, and only one of you is making it out alive. Sure, you could try and shoot them right between the eyes - but where's the fun in that? Red Hot Ricochet is an intense game of ricochet duels, and you'll need wise shooting, lucky bounces, and a bit of triggernometry to win.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #26 SincereMen
79% match5 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Utopia EntertainmentPub: Rhyton Solutions GmbH
Windows
This game is a First Person Shooter video game based on VR technology with realistic graphic and hardcore action shooter gameplay. The main character is a trained ranger that come to help his partner from the edge of the chopper using a heavy machinegun and try to save him.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #27 Kyber Knights
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Portaalin Pojat Oy
Windows
A multiplayer VR game by an Arcade for Arcades. Kyber Knights is a fun and easy multiplayer game developed exclusively for VR Arcades. Simple controls and an easy to control Operator View make this fast paced shooter a great choice for Arcades. CURRENTLY ONLY IN LAN.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #28 Fatal Velocity: Physics Combat
78% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Range Plus One Inc.
Windows
Fatal Velocity: Physics Combat is a multiplayer first person physics combat smasher where speed and the environment are literally your weapons! Players utilize physics based weaponry and abilities to overcome, thrash and smash their opponents with extreme speeds into oblivion!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #29 GRAY GROFA
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TPM.CO SOFT WORKS
Windows
GRAY GROFA is an unparalleled side-scrolling shooter puzzle game developed for the 8-bit MSX computer. 2 years have been spent hand-tuning the game's visuals, movements and puzzles in a tireless pursuit for aesthetic perfection.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #30 Quip Anomaly
79% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: mentics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Quip Anomaly is a deep space dodge 'em up game. Guide Virnu to dodge hazards, acquire research, and obtain power ups. As you unlock each level, you will learn more about Virnu and her story.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #31 Elly The Jelly
78% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: Seize Studios
Windows · Mac
Are you ready for the Jelly? Get this awesome Party Game where you have to take your (former)friends out of the arena! Shoot pieces of yourself and use several items!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #32 BHB: BioHazard Bot
77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Brain Machine
Windows
You are BHB. A BioHazard Bot. Your mission: decontaminate. When alien creatures overrun a research facility, robotic drones known as BioHazard bots are deployed to deal with a situation too dangerous for regular decontamination crews.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #33 Double Stretch
77% matchMostly Negative24% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: ARGamesPub: Metal Fox
Windows
Double Stretch - an unusual top down flight shooter.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #34 Deep End
76% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Red Line Reality
Windows
The Deep End is a parkour platformer with entire room scale gameplay, experience virtual reality like never before as you climb, jump and run through 10 expansive levels. Only one rule, don't fall in the pool.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #35 Robot King Part 2: Boss Battles
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Steven Taylor
Windows
The second in a 3 part series, Robot King Part 2 continues the journey of a robot on a quest to find his place in a kingdom where everyone seems bent on his destruction. "Robot King 2: Boss Battles" is as the name indicates: a series of boss battles.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #36 Private Detective Punch Drunk
75% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Dogwood Gaming
Windows
Punch your way through ten levels of noir beat'em up with a video game twist.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #37 Zombie Parking
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 115 reviews2016
Dev: XPAGAME
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Computer indie-game in the genre of third-person shooter and survival horror.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #38 APEX Tournament
74% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Douglas LiangPub: Fantom Fathom LLC
Windows
Apex Tournament is the most fast-paced Team Death Match in VR. The primary method of movement is the Hyper Dash system, which turns your body into the controller - allowing movements at blazing speeds.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #39 Run Jump Die Repeat
74% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: LongArm Interactive
Windows
Run Jump Die Repeat is a single button platformer game. Press SPACE to run, bounce, jump, climb, and kill as you attempt to save the Cracker Princess and escape the evil Cron Rebels home planet.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #40 Prototype-CUBE
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Enzian Game Development Team
Windows
Using Sword and Bullet, while evading the barrage and swords, running stylishly through the buggy chess world, High difficulty level exhilarating action 3D shooting game!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #41 Banshee Force
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Sapphire Software Inc
Windows
Banshee Force is a virtual reality game where you command the legendary Banshee Force Weapons Platform. Standing in the middle of a planetary battle you use the weapons platform to stop the invaders and build a defense that can outlast the enemy.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #42 Cavern Crumblers
73% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: Asymptotic Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grab your friends and stock up on grenades for this fast-paced single-screen local multiplayer shooter! Compete with each other in an environment filled with destructible terrain as you run, jump, and dodge your way through the destruction.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #43 DC Wonder: Unlimited
72% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Nucleax
Windows
This is a 1v1, 2D fighting game featuring the members of the DC Wonder pop band. Play with friends or take on the 8-stage tournament to unlock new characters and stages.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #44 Pixel Gear
71% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: Geronimo Interactive
Windows
Pixel Gear is a pixel style VR shoot-em-up game with a variety of humorous cartoon monsters and ghosts as enemies.The multiplayer mode is great fun to play with your friends.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #45 Midnight Grub Session
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Crumb Goblin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get down with the thiccness
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #46 XENOCAVE
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BLUE LED
Windows
XENOCAVE is a retro-styled, scrolling platformer that elevates the genre with a unique fusion of ability and fine-tuned mechanics inspired by the classics. Specifically, imagine an amalgam of Mario's fluid controls, the double-jump and rapid-fire of Ghosts 'n Goblins, and the themes of Crystal Caves.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #47 BeeBeeQ
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Popup Asylum
Windows
BeeBeeQ is an asymmetric local multiplayer game where one VR player controls a Chef while up to four xbox controller players control Bees. Armed with a spatula and a fly swat the VR chef player has to try cook while the bees steal food, sting and generally harass him.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #48 Scuffle Scoundrels
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Moped Games
Windows
Scuffle Scoundrels is an oldschool arcade brawler for 2-to-4 rivals of all ages. With explosive powerups, deadly hazards, and imposing animal captains, it's sink or be sunk in this fast paced pirate romp!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #49 Encounter of Galaxies
71% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Obi-Wanya
Windows
Encounter of Galaxies is a vertical scrolling shooter with an open world and elements of trade.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #50 Escape Lizards
69% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Egodystonic StudiosPub: Independent
Windows
Escape Lizards is simple: Tilt the platforms to roll your lizard egg from the start point to the finishing bell at the end of the level. However, things are never as simple as they seem...
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #51 The Pit
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zero KnowledgePub: Zero Knwoledge
Windows
The Pit is a platform game with touches of action and puzzles, which will force you to understand and know how to use all the skills you have.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #52 Reckpunk
69% matchMostly Positive79% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: dlan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Reckpunk is a platformer/endless runner where you control level elements rather than the main characters.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #53 Silentium 2D
67% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2018
Pub: Frentwick Indie
Windows
Silentium 2D is a fun, classy, arcade based game which puts you and a friend in a 1v1 arena. Inspired by various arcade games, Silentium 2D was a hobby project designed to let younger audiences get their hands on a keyboard and quickly learn the intuitive controls.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #54 Refraction
67% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Zilby
Windows · Mac · Linux
Refraction is a top-down, arena action game where you use quick reflexes to take down hordes of enemies. You must rely on your skill and your wit as you fight to survive, in the hope that you can live long enough to take down the core of all corruption.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #55 The War of the Worlds: Andromeda
67% matchMostly Negative30% of 20 reviews2018
Pub: Mediamas Europa
Windows · Linux
The world is over, get up and start the battle of revenge! With the first-person shooter of The War of the Worlds: Andromeda, load your weapons and lead your team to fight through swarms of fierce aliens. Turn the battle around through 14 epic levels of brutal combat, based on the world of H.G. Wells.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #56 Galaxy Combat Wargames
69% matchMixed58% of 31 reviews2016
Dev: Fork Particle Games
Windows
Galaxy Combat Wargames is a head to head multiplayer PvP space shooter that engages you in challenging and intensely competitive space combat matches against other fighters from around the world. Engage in tough wargames on exciting planetary arenas and become the best commander.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #57 Rubicon Approach
56% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Carbon Fiber Games
Windows
Rubicon Approach is a fast paced zero gravity shooter with a unique free movement system. Engage an enemy team in high speed, adrenaline fueled action across multiple maps.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%